For the most devoted Trump conspiracy theorists, there are no coincidences and timing is everything.
So when ex-president Donald Trump was arraigned on Tuesday on charges that he falsified business records to obscure hush money payments in an effort to influence
Zignal’s analysis found tens of thousands of mentions calling Trump a martyr. The number more than doubled immediately after Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, linked the prosecution of Trump to the persecution of Christ during an interview. “Jesus was arrested and murdered by the Roman government,” she said. “There have been many people throughout history that have been arrested and persecuted by radical corrupt governments, and it’s beginning today in New York City.”The comparison was denounced by Episcopal Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, who oversees more than 500 churches in Greene’s home state and called her comments blasphemous and disgusting.
Yet it’s an outgrowth from Christian nationalism, a movement that fuses traditional Christian themes and imagery with conservative candidates like Trump, according to John Fea, a historian at Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, who has researched evangelical Christianity’s role in American history.
In the Christian nationalist view, Trump’s return to New York could be seen as an echo of Christ’s triumphant entry to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, Fea said, with the exception that Christ rode a donkey and Trump arrived in a motorcade. “Watch out for infiltrators, the minute they want to start trouble call it off and everyone go home,” a poster wrote on Gab in response to a post announcing Greene’s protest in Manhattan.
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